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This .56 caliber, single shot boot pistol was typically carried by civilians. It has no markings. This item was found at bottom of the Lower Redoubt in the Federal fortifications at Johnsonville, Tennessee.

Federal columbiad guns mounted on tinclads probably fired this 7-inch Dyer shell at Confederate fortifications on Island No. 10. The island surrendered to Gen. John Pope on April 8, 1862. The shell is on permanent exhibit at the Carnegie Center in...

A map of the Tennessee (note the spelling of Tennassee) government, formerly part of North Carolina taken chiefly from surveys by Genel. D[aniel] Smith and others for the American Edition of Guthrie's Geographical. This map accompanied a published...

This map was contained in Cary's New Universal Atlas (London, 1808). Also note the spelling of Tennessee in this map (Tenassee) and the spelling of Fort Loudoun (Lowdon). Map shows many Indian towns and villages of the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw...

Composite map showing stations and settlements of East Tennessee, the North Carolina Military Reservation of 1783, the Congressional Reservation of 1808, the Western Purchase of 1818. The map's chief purpose was to indicate locations of the native...

A form issued by the Confederate Secretary of War promoting W. W. Ferguson to Second Lieutenant of the Corps Engineers. The document is signed by Judah P. Benjamin, whom Jefferson Davis would appoint Confederate Secretary of State the following...

This map showing Confederate military installations along the Tennessee portion of the Mississippi River was hand-drawn on linen by Albert Martin around 1861. It stretches from Ashport in the north to Memphis in the south and shows Confederate...

Sketch of the Battle of Little Bighorn, which took place on June 25, 1876 in eastern Montana Territory and at which the 7th US Cavalry command under Gen. George Armstrong Custer was nearly wiped out by a large force of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors....

Hand-drawn map showing the area around Knoxville, indicating Fort Sanders and other Union fortifications and regiments at the time of the Confederate assault on the city in November 1863. The map was created by Union soldier Seth Alden Abbey...

Map of the major locations of the Civil War in 1863 showing the states of Ohio, Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, North Carlina, South Carolina, and Florida. Shows major waterways, main...

Lucy Virginia writes of fires on the mountains all around and that at night the fires look like a marching army. She had a note from Mollie about the high cost of items such as butter $4 or $5 a pound and so on. She next writes that Longstreet has...

The cause of the South has gone down. Yesteday Fench and Martha worked all day making cakes, molasses candy, egg-nog, etc. for the children. She had a difficult time finding items for the children's stockings. She had a set of tiny coffee cups and...

General view of a Memphis street along the river front reflects the hustle and bustle of commerce and the cotton industry as displayed in downtown along Front Street. Freedmen and their families are seen laboring and occupying the area.